Improved cabinet-bedstead



' iANDREW J. ROBERTS, or

BOSToN, MA-ssAOHUsETTs.

Leners Patent No. 105,850, daad Juzg'ze, 1870.

I'MPRo'vED CABINET-Benehmen.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making peut:v of the lame.

To all to whom these presents shall come .n

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. ltolmn'reof Boston, in the countyA of `snt'folkand Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have mad'alriiventionof a new and useful Secretary or CahinetLBedste-ad; and do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof', due reference being h'ad to the a0- companying drawing, making part of'this speoifiation,t and `in wmehi 1 y Figure '1 is a perspective view of the invention, in an uprightposition, Y .Figure 2 being a like view of it as lowered into a horizontal position, and ready for occupancy.

' Figure 3 is a vertical section of such` invention. .In the drawing accompanying ,this specification, and which illustrates 1nyinvention a'denotes an upright case or structure, whse exterior resembles a secretary book-case or other article of household furniture, such, structure being hinged in a suitable manner, at or near its bottom, to a foundation or base `of any proper form, or construction, in such manner that theentire `structure may be turned upon its point of'support, and lowered from an upright to a horizontal position, the extreme lower end `of the structure being either `weighted or provided 1with a spling, to' aid in retarcling. its descent and Vto assist in elevating it into a. perpendicular position.

The rear of the case a may be furnished at top and bottom with a. head and foot-board, b c, hinged to it as represented, the arrangement of this head and footboard being such that, when the structure is in a vertical' position, they are folded atwiseagainst orv within it, and are invisiblefrom its outside; but while the structure is lowered into a horizontal position, they are turned up, as shown in fig. 2 ot' the chewing'. 'lhe spring bed-bottom, in the present instance, is composed of a series of longitudinal sluts l d, &c., disposed within the structure in a proper manner, and resting upon India-rubber cylinders or springs e e.

The accompanying drawing exhibits the structure 'a as hinged to ears ht', making part of standards j k,

which areto be'secnred to the oor of the apartment, a weight or spring being attached to the lower edge or end of the structure, iii order to effect, as nearly as possible, the equipoise ot' :auch structure upon its snp-l porting hinges.

VVhat-I claim as myinvention is- The construction and arrangement of thev bed-Trame 'and weight or spring applied to thesame, and the base and vstandards j k, to which the said bed-frame is hinged, in the manner shown and described.

ANDREW J. ROBERTS,

Witnesses EDWARD GRIFFITH, GEO. A. Lonnie. 

